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Shakespeare in Clark Park has teamed up with Team Sunshine Performance Corporation to make this year’s Henry IV: Your Prince and Mine, a production of epic proportions. They recruited a hundred actors from 36 Philadelphia neighborhoods to portray soldiers in an intense battle scene. There’s a Conversation Station before each show to discuss the work that went into the production, and a Pub Prelude at Gojjo Bar, where four actors give a sense of what it was like to be a pub-goer in the age of Henry IV. All the events are free, the play runs just under two hours with no intermission, and in case of rain, the proceedings move to the UPenn Ice Skating Rink on Walnut Street.

The 31st MusikFest starts Friday in Bethlehem, PA, and runs through August 10th. Over the years this musical feast has grown into a real extravaganza on 15 stages offering some 300 plus acts that include The Avett Brothers, Sheryl Crow, Weezer, Steely Dan and The Moody Blues. There’s a good bit of dance performance, too, and fireworks, food, artisans and interactive displays under the historic Steel Stacks.

Leader and vocalist of the band Renaissance, Annie Haslam, has also become known in recent years as a painter. She opens a new exhibition at New Hope’s Celt-Iberia Traders at the artist opening Saturday evening and will be on hand to discuss her ”intuitive abstract impressionistic” style of work.

The 4th annual Southeastern Asian Dragon Boat Festival is Saturday at Penns Landing and it’s free, a chance to not only see these colorful boats race in the marina, but also experience the tastes and sounds of Southeast Asian culture.

For First FridayFringeArts has a chance to get your guide for the upcoming Fringe Festival while enjoying free beer and music from King Britt and from live plants (!), and dance performances by Kate Watson-Wallace and others at the FringeArts building and the Race Street Pier across the street on Columbus Boulevard.

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